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18 Jun 2015: There are 263 people waiting for a heart transplant in the UK (1). Many die in the three years it can take to wait for a suitable donor. Transplant hearts usually come from people who are brain dead,

29 Oct 2015: My day job combines teaching maths undergraduates, public communication of mathematics, and working with school students. When I'm not doing these things, I enjoy various forms of craft. I've

16 Jul 2015: This coming September will see Murray Edwards hosting the biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Our theme is ‘Green

21 May 2015: Great Barrier Reef (image: the Catlin Seaview Survey)   It seems crazy that twelve people have walked on the moon and only three have made it seven miles down to the deepest part of

15 Oct 2015: The 10-inch telescope and me in our garden.   My name is Helen and I’m about to start studying Natural Sciences (Physical) at Murray Edwards College. Never thinking I stood a chanc

10 Dec 2015: PRACTISING THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE “There is nothing - nothing at all - that compares with the exhilaration of discovery, of being the first person on the planet to see something new and under

4 Jun 2015: Amazingly I now have just the ‘exam term’ to go to complete my first year of study.

2 Jul 2015: Driving technology forward from the stone age to the modern day I have just completed my third year at Cambridge, and have specialised in materials science within the Natural Sciences Tripos. I have

12 Nov 2015: My name is Kate Wilkinson and I have just started my third year of engineering at Murray Edwards. I had enjoyed Chemistry, Biology and especially Physics at school and college, but was finding it hard

30 Jul 2015: Science at university is so much more exciting than at school and exams become less about memorising textbooks and more about applying our understanding to different situations.